On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:11:51AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:02:02PM -0400, John J. Foerch wrote: > > Just a heads up that all conkeror users should begin to transition away > > from using contrib/run-conkeror to launch the program. XULRunner, as of > > version 5.0 (which which is next after 2.0, obviously) no longer uses a > > gre registry (/etc/gre.d and ~/.gre.d). Without it, we lose the ability > > to automatically start conkeror with the highest available version of > > XULRunner. > > I think there's still a possibility to go a little bit in that direction: > > At least the xulrunner from the xulrunner-5.0 package of > http://mozilla.debian.net/ still knows about the --gre-version option: > > $ xulrunner-5.0 --gre-version > 5.0a2 > > So if the script tests each xulrunner found in the search path ($PATH) > or so using this option, we could still determine the newest one of > those in the path. It's surely not as good as with the registry which > AFAIK was independent of the search path in $PATH, but it's better > than nothing at all. > > JFTR: This issue does more or less not affect the Debian packages as > they use a different startup script (which can be found under > debian/conkeror.bin in the git repo) which uses the fact that packaged > xulrunners in Debian have usually all but the last part of the version > number in their binary name (i.e. xulrunner-1.9.2 or xulrunner-5.0). > > If none of these can be found, debian/conkeror.bin tries to determine > the version number of the found xulrunner via "xulrunner > --gre-version". > > Kind regards, Axel
I don't think this buys us enough convenience to make it worth while. With the GRE registry, you could have many copies of XULRunner installed, but not in the PATH. This mainly benefits developers, and people who have manually installed both Conkeror and XULRunner. It's irrelevant for OS conkeror packages, because they shouldn't be using run-conkeror in the first place, as there is no uncertainty in that situation as to the location of the preferred version of XULRunner. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
